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Monday, April 14, 2025

Improve Your Nonprofit’s Results with These Key Processes

Topics: volunteer, goal-setting, strategic plan, best practices

As you flesh out your nonprofit’s strategic plan for the new calendar or fiscal year, you’re likely looking for ways to build on last year’s success without overextending your resources and team’s effort. That’s why implementing efficient processes is a worthy investment, especially during these formative months early in the year.

While making large changes to your daily operations can be daunting, it’s ultimately essential to catalyze your nonprofit&rsq [...]

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Friday, April 26, 2024

4 Essential Elements of a Strong Nonprofit Strategic Plan

Topics: volunteer, board of directors, strategy, donor retention, strategic plan, donor cultivation, best practices, community engagement

How can your nonprofit plan for the future in a sustainable, measured way that sets your entire team up for success? By creating a nonprofit strategic plan!

A strategic plan is a document that identifies the goals your organization needs to achieve in the next one to five years to get closer to accomplishing its mission. It also outlines how you’ll work toward those goals.

A strong nonprofit plan can help you ensure your current and future projects are aligned with your larger v [...]

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Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Securing Funding through Volunteer Grants: 3 Key Strategies

Topics: volunteer, strategic plan, nonprofit grant proposal, grant proposal sections

In today’s socially-conscious age, more businesses than ever before are providing support to nonprofits and their communities. In fact, 85% of companies in the United States have a formal domestic corporate giving program. There are many different forms of corporate philanthropy that businesses can offer your nonprofit, from sponsorships to in-kind donations. However, if you’re seeking a combination of donations and volunteer support, volunteer grants can be especially impactful fo [...]

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Monday, November 21, 2022

Essential Steps for Successful Volunteer Program Development

Topics: volunteer, strategy, goal-setting, nonprofit leadership, best practices, community engagement

If you are employed by a relatively new nonprofit that has grown steadily since its founding, congratulations: you are on the path to success. You established your board, vision and mission statements, engaged an initial group of donors, hired your core staff and created community impact through your programming. What’s the next step? In a word: VOLUNTEERS.

Besides financial contributions, the gifts of time and talent are the most important donations that supporters can make to your [...]

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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Setting your Fundraising Committees up for Success

Topics: volunteer, goal-setting

Let’s face it. Sometimes whether we want to or not, life forces us to delegate. It may be incredibly hard to relinquish control—you want everything to be said and done in the professional and timely manner that you would bring to the table. By using fundraising committees you may be able to free up some of the precious hours of your day as a fundraiser by letting super-passionate volunteers do the outreach for you.

Building your committee.

Committees can be a great way to br [...]

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